1. Group of similar conditions. 2. In ICD-10-CM, a three-character category or a four-character subcategory.

Measurement system for assessing burn injury to the total body surface area (TBSA). The body is divided into segments as multiples of 9%. Adults: The external genitals are 1%; each arm is 9%; front and back of the trunk and each leg is counted as 18%; and head is 9%. Children and infants: The head is 18% (larger surface area in proportion to the body) and legs 14% each. The rule of nines estimation of total body surface area (TBSA) burned.

Legal judicial decision.

Amount owed on a credit transaction; also known as outstanding or unpaid balance .

Public or private outpatient health care facility located where there is a shortage of health services and staffed by a nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or certified nurse midwife under the direction of a physician. It gives routine diagnostic services, laboratory services, drugs, and biologicals. It has access to other diagnostic services from facilities that meet federal guidelines and must be licensed by the state. Also called rural health center (RHC) .

Legislation enacted by Congress in 1977 and implemented in 1978 to increase access to primary health care services for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries living in rural areas. The RHCA also created a cost-based payment mechanism to ensure the financial viability of rural health clinics and encouraged the use of midlevel practitioners by providing payment for their services, even in the absence of a full-time physician.

Limited-service rural hospitals that provide outpatient and short-term inpatient hospital care on an urgent or emergency basis, then release patients or transfer them to an Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) or other full-service hospital. To be designated as RPCHs, hospitals have to meet certain criteria including requirements that they not have more than six inpatient beds for acute (hospital-level) care and maintain an average inpatient length of stay of no more than 72 hours.

Billed amount for quick test results report. Also see stat charge .